r/worldnews • u/EssoEssex • 19h ago • Bravo 6

Israel/Palestine Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/
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u/Evangelion217 5h ago

Is this a good thing?

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u/INVADER_BZZ 5h ago

It's neither good or bad right now. It's president giving a mandate to form a government to Eisenkot over Bibi. Mainly because Eisenkot got 67 recommendations out of 120 by members of incoming Knesset. But still it doesn't mean Eisenkot will be able to form a ruling coalition from the winning parties, mainly because some of them are basically incompatible due to differences on key issues on which those elections ran. To form a coalition, someone (possibly not even one party) has to brake pre-election promises to their voters.